Quotes by Mr. Clayton Ruby, Canadian attorney at law

Criminal Nudity Laws

“Criminal law should be concerned with crime to society, not the embarrassment of the prudest among us,” Mr. Ruby said. “Imprisonment for nudity is entirely beyond a modern conception of what the criminal law should do.”

Nudist Quotes

Colonial Lawmakers on Nudity

Bathing led to nudity. Nudity led to promiscuity. So believed the colonial lawmakers of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Philadelphia was especially strict in those early years. You could be jailed there bathing more than once a month.